The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

He helped me during lunch with my history assignments, and he became interested in the role of immigration in American history. We compiled the stories into a book, “Poughkeepsie Pride: The Stories of Our Immigrants,” and distributed copies to the local community.

High School 130

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It also plans to analyze lesson plans created by the 1619 Project , which grew out of a series of New York Times stories that reframe American history around slavery and its consequences. The researchers controlled for students’ socio-economic status, race, home language and many other other student and school characteristics.

Social Studies 145

Social Studies Civics Geography Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Late last year, the White House announced it would put that idea into action, and soon will launch a 10-year plan to revitalize Native languages, under the umbrella of a new initiative to advance educational equity and economic opportunity for Native Americans. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

Teaching 144

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2022

born white parents living in the same affluent East Coast suburb for my new book, “ Race at the Top : Asian Americans and Whites in Pursuit of the American Dream in Suburban Schools.”. Related: OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools.

Education 20

Education Sociology Economics Tutoring 20

Teaching American History

JULY 2, 2024

Teaching American History emphasizes the use of primary documents. Why, then, is Teaching American History publishing a series of narrative histories? In case you didn’t know about the narrative histories, let me describe them, before I explain them.

History 52

History Teaching American History Economics 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Without a doubt we would be living on Pinterest since it has dozens of pinboards – and tens of thousands of pins – related to history , including awesome resource sets from the Stanford History Education Group. million book images from the Internet Archive. . National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

THE DRIVE FOR PROGRESS In American history early colonists’ and settlers’ desire and drive for progress was necessitated by the need to organize ways to survive, and fed by the opportunity to use the new territory that they took and occupied. Bodley, in his book Victims of Progress, 2 nd Ed.,

Civics 52

Civics Economics American History Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Sandra Stone, author of the 2004 book “Creating the Multiage Classroom” and a consultant on the topic, believes multiage education could be “more valuable” for older children “given the wider range of growth, both physical and emotional, as they are finding out who they are.”. Related: High school should be more like preschool.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Psychology Tradition Professional Development 75

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 1, 2024

On Monday, February 10, 2025 , historian Justene Hill Edwards, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian, will discuss Edwards book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedmans Bank , a comprehensive account of the Freedmans Bank and its depositors.

American History 98

American History Economics Professional Development History 98

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

But it was a “watershed moment,” according to a recent book published about the schools, “ A Better Life for Their Children ,” for another reason, too: Those who attended the schools would later actively participate in the Civil Rights Movement, overturning segregation as an official American policy. Can I introduce the characters?

Civics 91

Civics Education American History History 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

She’s a sociology professor at the University of Virginia and coauthor of the book Academically Adrift. Jon: Sarah Igo chairs the American History Department at Vanderbilt and is an intellectual historian. And that has consequences for how much they learn in higher education. Kirk: That’s Josipa Roksa.

Humanities 93

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 93

Teaching American History

JANUARY 23, 2024

He would be quoted in Thomas Weld’s “American Slavery As It Is” (1839), explaining how sugar planters worked their enslaved to death because it was economical to replace them with new African captives. She wrote, “I hated everything connected with the body, and could not bear the sight of a medical book.”

American History 98

American History Government History Economics 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

One in five Greeley residents lives below the poverty level, and the school district is trying to upgrade its technology to give students an economic boost. Many parents are obsessed with excessive screen time,” says Delaney Ruston, a physician and filmmaker who created the documentary and wrote a companion book with the same title.

K-12 100

K-12 High School Library Elementary School 100

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

Whitaker to discuss his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America. You write about how that census was then used in the 1890s by the statistician Frederick Hoffman in his book, Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro. They are killed for the crime of their economic success.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Social studies classes spend only 8 to 9 percent of their time on Black history, treating it as a niche topic instead of a core part of American history. Their history lessons celebrate white people, and their books feature white characters. Yet learning about unfamiliar cultures and ideas makes us smarter.

Museum 141

Museum Education American History History 141

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Quoting his owner in his book, Life of an American Slave , the abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote, “[I]f you teach that n *r (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. Now, they are doing it again. It would forever unfit him to be a slave.”

American History 130

American History Cultures Social Studies Economics 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

The crowd cheered at the idea that people like them — mostly white, mostly male — were the true heroes of American history. Most Americans were appalled. High school social studies teachers and scholars of American history don’t deny that the nation’s story is full of mobs, civil unrest and violence.

Teaching 140

Teaching Civics American History Controversial Topics 140

Political Science Now

APRIL 1, 2025

Despite the fact that President Biden and congressional Democrats entered 2024 with accomplishments like infrastructure reform, caps on prescription drugs, and one of the strongest economic rebounds in American history, 66 percent of voters still felt that Democrats had accomplished little or nothing.

Primary Sources 40

Primary Sources Political Science Leadership American History 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

Authors of history textbooks writing about the failed insurrection of Jan. The influence of white supremacy on American history has largely been disregarded by past and present writers, especially in accounts of the Civil War. Historians should be equally as motivated to rewrite the wrongs of history books past.

History 145

History American History Social Studies Economics 145

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. They are killed for the crime of their economic success. Some were not. Du Bois’s work on Reconstruction.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

In 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Trump signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security, or CARES, Act, which allotted an additional $3.5 billion for the Child Care and Development Block Grant. The supplemental fund was also meant to support the child care needs of essential workers.

K-12 133

K-12 Education Private School Charter School 133

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

Earlier this year, he signed a law barring libraries from banning books based on ideology; book bans nationwide have largely targeted LGTBQ+-themed books. Walz signed an executive order in 2023 protecting gender-affirming health care.

K-12 138

K-12 Education Public School History 138